Side note: “Keurig Dr Pepper” sounds disgusting. Who greenlit that name and why are they still employed there?

I encourage people to try getting locally roasted beans. The quality of the brew is far above what you can get at any supermarket brand.

It does generally cost a bit more, but I don't think it's unmanageable. If optimizing caffeine intake for cost, the economical choice is probably to ditch coffee for caffeine pills.

Sweden: Arvid Nordquist

I was wrong about the following:

~~Also: Löfbergs is owned by Nestlé or a subsidiary since ten years back or so.~~

Use this as a catalyst to buy local beans. You will not regret the change.

American here.

I understand the impulse, and I hate Trump as much as anybody.

I just want to point out that BMW's biggest plant is in the USA and America's top beer is owned by a Belgian company.

When it comes to the 0.01% oligarchy, there's no 'Europe' or 'America' it's all about the money.

• Tea
  • 🇳🇱 PG Tips is popular here in the UK.
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ringtons (a personal favourite) is popular in and around Newcastle, where the company is based.
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yorkshire Tea (also exceedingly popular in the north as well as the midlands) is owned by Betty's & Taylors.
  • 🇬🇧 Tetley is a popular brand owned by 🇮🇳 Tata, though personally I can't drink the stuff.
• Coffee
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Black Sheep Coffee is a chain of coffee shops in the UK, but they also sell beans and grounds.
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pilgrims Coffee is a small roastery on Holy Island.
  • While their instant coffee is never great, supermarket own-brand beans and grounds are better than you would expect. 🇬🇧 Tesco and 🇬🇧 Waitrose both sell fairly nice coffee.
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pumphrey's is another small coffee roaster, from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Many independent cafés and shops in the north-east sell their coffee, but I believe you have to buy beans and grounds directly.
• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Red Box Coffee is based in Edinburgh and they sell tea and coffee, both of which are quite nice.

I used to work at a museum in Cornwall and the café stocked Cornish Tea

https://www.cornish-tea.co.uk/

There goes the brand I use. I don't really care the brand, all instant coffee is similarly bad, the deciding factor was the jar and what it worries me is that they could go for a cheaper jar that I can't use afterwards.

~~> Teekanne~~

~~Goddammit.~~

I'm stupid.

Evergood and Ali coffee are still norwegian brands, I think, and hope.

Barry's and Lyons are Irish and delicious. Lyons is blended in te UK but Barrys is all Irish.

Grind coffee is also British and an independent company

I look forward to prosecuting all of these sales as treason in a near future and convicting all who intermediated the sales to exile with passport removal and sanctions.

I don't need "branded" coffee and tea. Just some non-usa coffee and tea.

Aldi House Blend whole beans are surprisingly good.

Lidl Italian Blend is also good for when I want a change.

🇸🇪 Arvid Nordquist is my favorite.

No Bustelo or Bones? Word, I'm good.

Esssecaffé, it's the company the Segafredo family started after selling the original company. I've never bought their coffee for home use, but whenever I have one in a bar (café), it's great.

I mostly drink decaf and the only that tastes good is Lucaffe. I heavily recommend their products:

https://lucaffe.com/